Arnold Dreyblatt was born on 1953 and is an American composer, performance artist and visual artist.
12 Facts About Arnold Dreyblatt
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Arnold Dreyblatt was born in 1953 in New York City.
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Arnold Dreyblatt started his studies at Wesleyan University in the 1970s and transferred to the Center for Media Study at the University at Buffalo.
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In 1982, Dreyblatt obtained a master's degree in composition from Wesleyan University; his thesis was titled, "Nodal Excitation".
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Arnold Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young and Alvin Lucier, and new media art with Steina and Woody Vasulka.
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Arnold Dreyblatt invented a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques and a system of tuning.
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Arnold Dreyblatt's compositions are based on harmonics and thus just intonation, played either through a bowing technique he developed for his modified double bass, and other modified and conventional instruments which he specially tuned.
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Arnold Dreyblatt originally used a steady pulse provided by the bowing motion on his double bass, but he eventually added many more instruments and more rhythmic variety.
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Arnold Dreyblatt received a 1998 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
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Arnold Dreyblatt has worked with Paul Panhuysen, Pierre Berthet and Ex-Easter Island Head.
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Arnold Dreyblatt has been based in Berlin, Germany, since 1984.
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Arnold Dreyblatt has collaborated on material with the psych-folk band Megafaun.